[Nottingham] FLASH vs HDD

[Richard Smedley]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:03 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> Also the new Asus Eee PC that everyone is talking about has a 4Gb
> flash drive as the boot disk.

& the XO, of course :-)

I'm actually logged into a server which uses a CF disk atm
This saves electricity, heat and noise :)

If you're doing this purely for speed, then you should
put your apps onto a RAMdisk. To try it out boot Puppy
GNU/Linux from a CD, then click on ``Word processor'' =o)

 - Richard

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